DNA Test Clears Man After 35 Years
Criminal in Question: James Bain
Unjustly Incarcerated?: Yes
Age: ?? but spend 35 years in prison
Jailed in: 1974
Alleged Crime: Kidnapping and raping 9 year old boy
Innocence Proven?: Yes
By what: DNA testing
Compensation: ??
DNA Test Frees Man After 28 Years
Criminal in Question: Donald Eugene Gates
Unjustly Incarcerated?: Yes
Age: 58
Jailed in: 1981
Crime: rape and murder of Catherine Schilling, 21
Innocence Proven?: Yes
By what: DNA hair analysis
Compensation: 75$ and a bus ticket
A Glog on the Donald Eugene Gates: after 28 years of prison. FREE AT LAST!
1957 Double Murder Case Solved By Science Today
Criminal in Question: Gerald Fatten Mason
Unjustly Incarcerated?: No
Age: 22 when committed crime, 68 when caught
Jailed in: 2003
Crime: Robbery, Sexual Assault, Stealing Automobile, Murdered 2 officers
Innocence Proven?: No
By what: Forensics and Ballistics
Compensation: None. He got what he deserved - TWO life sentences
So what?
A common theme amongst these cases is that science is involved in resolving them. However, when applied to the justice system, science is very flexible and has many applicable uses. It can be used to reassess past crimes to find the true criminal or release the wrongly convicted. That is one way to use science. Another, however, as evidently seen in the 1957 case, is to use science to help bring justice one step closer to the doorstep of an elusive, on the run criminal.
Man cleared after 30 years
DNA Test Clears Man After 35 Years
Criminal in Question: James Bain
Unjustly Incarcerated?: Yes
Age: ?? but spend 35 years in prison
Jailed in: 1974
Alleged Crime: Kidnapping and raping 9 year old boy
Innocence Proven?: Yes
By what: DNA testing
Compensation: ??
DNA Test Frees Man After 28 Years
Criminal in Question: Donald Eugene Gates
Unjustly Incarcerated?: Yes
Age: 58
Jailed in: 1981
Crime: rape and murder of Catherine Schilling, 21
Innocence Proven?: Yes
By what: DNA hair analysis
Compensation: 75$ and a bus ticket
Article from boston.com about Donald Eugene Gates's case -- marked up.
http://mandyliao.glogster.com/donald-eugene-gates/
1957 Double Murder Case Solved By Science Today
Criminal in Question: Gerald Fatten Mason
Unjustly Incarcerated?: No
Age: 22 when committed crime, 68 when caught
Jailed in: 2003
Crime: Robbery, Sexual Assault, Stealing Automobile, Murdered 2 officers
Innocence Proven?: No
By what: Forensics and Ballistics
Compensation: None. He got what he deserved - TWO life sentences
So what?
A common theme amongst these cases is that science is involved in resolving them. However, when applied to the justice system, science is very flexible and has many applicable uses. It can be used to reassess past crimes to find the true criminal or release the wrongly convicted. That is one way to use science. Another, however, as evidently seen in the 1957 case, is to use science to help bring justice one step closer to the doorstep of an elusive, on the run criminal.